A bit stuck

For my next Tears review...

Why Rob Ford will win again in Toronto

Four factors point toward re-election of Mayor Rob Ford in Toronto's municipal election.

Search for the Star Stones by Andre Norton

Search for the Star Stones is an omnibus of two linked Norton novels, 1968's The Zero Stone and 1969's Uncharted Stars. Many of Norton's books shared an ancient universe where the history of technological civilizations began long before humans appeared and would presumably long continue once we fell into dust with the rest. While the Zacathans managed to survive through two million years, such longevity is not the usual case and most of the civilizations that rose and fell, lumped together as a misleadingly unitary term “Forerunner”, are known only through enigmatic relics.
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f/t for my reviews posted here in August

List
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone
Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Two Serpents Rise: A Novel of the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells
Full Fathom Five: A Novel of the Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
The Desert of Stars - A Human Reach Novel by John J. Lumpkin
Sight of Proteus by Charles Sheffield
Seven Citadels: by Geraldine Harris
Cage on the Sea by Kaoru Ohno
Shadow: Book One of the Scavenger Trilogy by K.J. Parker
Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A. Heinlein
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard
Pattern: Book Two of the Scavenger Trilogy by K.J. Parker
Hard to Be a God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
A Voice Out of Ramah by Lee Killough
Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein
Memory: Book Three of the Scavenger Trilogy by K.J. Parker
Sword Art Online: Aincrad by Reki Kawahara
Search for the Star Stones by Andre Norton

I feel vaguely ill at how short that list is. There have been eight days where I posted no reviews. I will do better in September.

Total  F     M    Mu    F/T
20     5    12     3    0.25

And that's not making me feel much better.

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